Best friend at boot camp

Ok, so firstly I kind of feel like the black sheep here on this site. I am not a mom, sibling, girlfriend, or wife of a sailor. I’m just a best friend who wants to know what’s going on. I feel like if I was to post anything here I would be rejected b/c of the friend thing. But when I say best friend I mean just that.  I feel like part of her family, they have taken me in like another child. When I was away at college every time I got the chance to come home for the weekend I would go over to her house everyday.  And after college I still did. When I was having problems with my family, as small as they might have been, I knew that there was a place where I could go and be all hours of the night.  When she left for boot camp I still go over to her house and hang out with her mom, who is such an amazing person.  Now that she is at boot camp it’s like I don’t really have any friends here. All my other friends are far away as well and it was like now I am completely alone. I do not have a boyfriend here to talk to about stuff and just feel like crying sometimes because the person I talk to about everything is gone.  All my other friends are gone and so I do my best to keep in contact with people but there is only so much that can be done.  I do write her a letter everyday and have recently received one back from her.  Now I am doing all I can to be there for her mother as it is doubly a hard time for her, due to recent happenings. I just want to know that she will be ok until we go to PIR in March.  They have done so much for me with out even realizing it.  And I feel like I can never do enough to thank them both.  My hope is that God brings them both comfort during this hard time and that I can do what I can in what ever way possible. 

            I love to read through the PIR group that I joined, also the discussion for her division, and see what is happening with others in bc with her.  I like to see what the other people in this site are going through and know that, although it’s not the same kind of relationship as a mom, wife, g/f, or sibling, I also miss her and only want the best for her.  So if you read this I want you to know that this is not a sob story, or a pity me post. It is just me, a person who misses her best friend terribly and I wish I could do more to help and be there for her family as they go through this hard time in their life.

I have no idea what it must be like to have a spouse, sibling, or b/f, off at boot camp so my heart goes out to you to stay strong until PIR. That is what I’m looking forward to the most, I have started saving for a plane ticket and can’t wait to see my best friend walk out those doors in her uniform having accomplished so much since she left.

God bless you all and those you miss off at boot camp.